San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-26
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


coast fears OF the extent OF the wrecks
caused by the late storm on the upper
lakes.
The New York republicans have en-
tered their dividing wedge and the New
York democracy find themselves split
iDtwo on the nomination OF q district at
torney.
HE summer breezes that blow so
soft DER Ceylon's ISLE" have not been
circulating through this section Of the
vineyard lately.
WITH the death of Elihu b. Wash
burne,a good man and good statesman
and good republican folded the drap-
cry OF his couch about him and laid
down to dreamless sleep.
The Amsterdam plaintiffs have dis
continued their suit against Sage and
Gould for S6,OOO,0O0. The order for dis.
continuing was cabled over yesterday.
Have Sage and Gould whacked up
diyy.
The Tampa telegraph tidings are not
assuring. Trust In sanitary precautions
and keep your premises clean. There
is great power OF salvation in these
things.
The democrats can figure over more
returns TO the square inch, on paper,
than would scare political opponent
out Of his next years growth, were it
not that the election returns show Il very
different condition OF affairs and justify
the belief in republican victory next
month.
The uninstructed, who figure out that
because Benjamin Butler advocates a
certain party the defeat Of that party ia
evident and inevitable, are referred TO
Benjamin's success in Massachusetts.
What other democrat since 1860 has had
30 fair share ofpOliticai power as B. +.
BIZ.
The little touch of cold weather sug
gestive approaching winter, so far as
winter can be said to approach in this
genial latitude, lie very mild decoctiOn
compared to the fifteen degrees below
zero in Montana. just think of forty
seven degrees below freezing point in
October. Blessed be balmy, breezy San
Antoine.
The socialist wing OF the United La
Dor party are in the field at Chicago
with the bOmb-thrOwers' counsel, Capt.
Black, as their candidate for supreme
cOurt judge. The stereOtyped petition
for the pardon OF the condemned an
vote Of one hundred and tifty-twO to
twenty. The petition will be as effective
as the pOpe's bull against the comet
BALTIMORE is in the thrOes of the most
exciting election she has known for
years The decent democrats despair
ing OF securing any redress from mu-
nicipaI corruption through the regular
democratic channels, have Joined hands
with the republicans and having purged
the registration rolls Of thousands OF H.
legally registered names will see what
the result will be for good government.
HARD labor is now added to the sem
fences passed against Irish editors for
printing league matters. The COnserVa-
tive party that Is running the coercion
business In Ireland will find harder
labor to carry their policy through sue
Cessfully, than the labor to which they
doom editors for publishing league pro-
ceedings. Ireland 10 growing restive
under the strain and something Will
drop before long If this coercion brutal
ity is continued.
WHAT is for the interest of this CITY ia
often seen more readily outside her cor
pOrate limits than inside. The Clarkes-
vile Times rises to remark pertinently:
-
raised $4,000 to advertise that CITY. II
properly expended it will be worth a
million" The nub of the whole bust
ness is in the closing sentence. will the
| Clarkesville Times express its senti-
ments on the pamphlet and dOdger style
| OF doing il?
The true inwardness OF that rushing
| Outwardness which Captivates all eyes
as they turn towards California, comes
more and more plainly to the surface as
the days roll by. They only confirm pre-
| viOus statements OF the whole Texas
| press. The boom is a transitOry thing to
engineer money into the pockets OF real
estate holders and is built upon the un
substantial basis OF pure wind.
In UNION alone is strength. No one
questions this trite observation. 1t ia
only the practical adaptation OF the
truth to Industrial conditions that Is
puzzling. The poor Over-wOrked
under fed, half-starved miners are
moving for a federation OF their inter-
ests. or the $4,000 miners registered,
about l4,OOO are really federated and
the rest unorganized. The orgsniza-
ton Of these is now attempted. What
is wanted, more even than Organization,
! is q spirit OF wisdom to devise ard a
patience to follow out the methods pro-
| posed In that wisdom. These two,
wisdom OF methods and patient pursuit
| Of ends as sought through that wisdom,
are the product Of a real civilization
alone and a true intelligence. How far
| they can be rendered effective In the
case of thousands Of untaught miners is
a question. 1t lie this very fact, and
this alone, that renders the result 80
] doubtful and success so problemstioal.